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Sunday, February 02, 2014

Doves in the Window

A few weeks ago, my mom asked me to make a table topper for the little table in her room. She also said that I should use scraps (I have plenty, so no problem there)
My first attempt turned out to be waaaaay too big (80 x 80cm for a table 45 x 42cm), so I started attempt number 2 using the 'Doves In The Window' quilt pattern.
This is a fairly traditional pattern (there are actually two different pattern with the same name ...), but I saw a more modern interpretation on a blog I follow, and thought to give it a spin.

I love the finished block, even though the sewing bit was a bit painful. I kept mixing up the order of the little pieces, ALL THE TIME! Then I started using a 1/4 inch (0.75cm) black border, but that didn't look right, so I ripped all the black bits off again and used a 1/2 (1.5cm) border instead.

Only problem now ....

It's still too big for the table (it ended 50 x 50cm)

This week also saw the completion of a long term project (started March 2013)

The blackwork sampler chess board.

There are 32 different designes, which I pulled from all over the place: books, magazines, the internet, ...

I'm not 100% sure if I call is finished, though.

I'm thinking about adding some gold accents, oooooooor even to mirror all the black fields in gold on the opposide side.